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Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Impossible: Motivating the unmotivated?

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Impossible: Motivating the unmotivated?
26.01.2025 4

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: How did we forget the responsibility lesson?

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: How did we forget the responsibility lesson?
20.01.2025 3

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Stop the false hope this year

Every New Year offers us a chance to take stock of our home and our efforts at building good habits in our children.In particular, it’s good to...

05.01.2025 6

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: New Year’s Resolutions: Five simple steps

As we launch into a new year, most of us pause to some degree and take stock of where we find ourselves in life. Doing so, we often then turn our...

28.12.2024 4

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Keep it simple this holiday season

The busy Holiday week is upon us, and we pass each other in a flurry of movement from one task to another. In our minds, the business of thinking...

22.12.2024 2

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s terrific parenting: The art of holding our opinions lightly …

“Once upon a time there was a wise Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said,...

15.12.2024 5

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: The need to be right!

Have you noticed the last time you talked to someone out of their opinion or perspective? How about an issue with your child, where you argued over...

08.12.2024 5

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terriffic Parenting: Misery loves company

Indeed, you have heard this saying before. It’s been around for centuries and remains as accurate today as it was for Sophocles in ancient Greece....

23.11.2024 3

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Anger brings more anger. Gratitude produces more gratitude

Our minds are like telescopic lenses, and the more we focus on something, the larger it becomes.As children, we begin with a starter telescope,...

17.11.2024 5

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: He just makes me so mad! It’s his/her fault I am miserable!

Whether adults, young siblings or older teens, you may often hear something like this when someone is upset, “It’s YOUR fault that I am angry. You...

10.11.2024 4

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Stop teaching kids to fight for their limitations?

More and more often, I find families reaching out for help because children or teens are stuck in a pattern of self-doubt, self-denigration and...

27.10.2024 4

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Change your life a bit … with this one idea

Yes, a bold claim. But indulge me a few moments.Personally, my to do list inevitably grows larger than hours in my day. I see that a meaningful,...

06.10.2024 5

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Frustration-free morning secrets

After I introduced some simple concepts on starting school, one mom sent me an email with this opening line: “Dr Cale, how do I get control of the...

21.09.2024 4

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Back to school; Back on track: Get the fundamentals right … right now!

As the school buses start to crank their engines, parents feel one of two things about their kids’ return to school: a big sigh of relief or a bit...

08.09.2024 2

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Mastering momentum for life change

We are a culture seeking immediate gratification. This we know.And our tendency to seek those instant or rapid changes is understandable. When we...

01.09.2024 2

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terriffic Parenting: Which end of the life-stick?

Imagine life boiled down to a straightforward decision that we have the power to influence moment by moment. And, even though we have the power to...

17.08.2024 2

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terriffic Parenting: What is Neurofeedback, and why now?

Because I have been working as a psychologist for many years and have a history of offering therapy, I often get asked, Dr. Cale, why Neurofeedback...

03.08.2024 8

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: Prickly, sensitive teens: Practical ways to connect

Many parents struggle with the attitude and ‘back-talk’ that comes with prickly teens. While some of us are spared from such challenges, many pre-...

28.07.2024 6

The Saratogian

Dr Randy Cale